Places willemerpeter Wants to Go

A breathtakingly steep set of stairs is carved directly into the face of the sea cliffs of Bonifacio.

This Corsican Neolithic site is full of pre-Roman megalithic structures that may or may not be penises.

Napoleon's childhood home is now open for people to explore the beginnings of France's short general.

Resting on a hill overlooking the coast, these medieval ruins look completely deserted save for their restored chapel.

A miniature Corsican village built out of pebbles.

This remarkable checkered church on a Corsican hilltop is fabled to have been built by angels.

A 15th-century Corsican chapel that possesses a rare Catholic monument: a "Scala Santa," or "Holy Stairs."

A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.

An unassuming plaque with a laminated poster shows the names of people who completed one of the most grueling journeys in Sweden.

A semi-sterile mutant birch that became Sweden's national tree.

An eclectic sculpture park rises atop a giant pile of ashes in Sweden.

This traffic circle in a small Swedish town is adorned with a statue of a giant potato.

This oak has seen Vikings, the Black Death, and world wars pass but refuses to give up.

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

A wooden street sign is the last remnant of this 400-year-old alleyway.

Sweden's first electric elevator remains hidden within a fortress-like building.

This centuries-old rooster survived a devastating fire.

An abstract representation of weather in Sweden.

A concrete mushroom that divided Stockholm residents for nearly a century.

This tree was once used to calculate the decrease of the Baltic Sea.

One of the biggest islands in the River Po is a protected nature reserve, reachable only by a seasonal ford rich with endemic fauna, fossils, and late 19th-century buildings.

For decades, these ships have been lying in rust awaiting a final decision on their fate.

In the Swedish forest stands a stone with a deadly inscription, promising ruin and death to whoever disturbs it.

A strange egg in a mucky bog of western Ireland marks the spot of an aviation milestone.